David Kamper

Rezballers and Skate Elders

Joyful Futures in Indian Country

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethnographer and American Indian studies scholar David Kamper examines how Indigenous youth and adults are making basketball and skateboarding meaningful to their communities by sustaining the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and combatting intergenerational trauma.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496213167
• ISBN-10: 1496213165
• Artikelnr.: 71262983

Autorenporträt

David Kamper is a professor of American Indian studies, associate director and cofounder of the Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports, and Social Change, and cofounder of Surf/Skate Studies Collaborative at San Diego State University. He is the author of The Work of Sovereignty: Tribal Labor Relations and Self-Determination at the Navajo Nation and coeditor of Waves of Belonging: Indigeneity, Race, and Gender in the Surfing Lineup.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ball Is Life
2. Some Days It’s a Good Day to Play Basketball
3. Rezball, the Anti-Funeral
4. Rezball and Gender
5. Skate (Rez) Life
6. Skater Legends of the Rez
7. Skate Elders
8. Native Women and Nonbinary Skaters
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index